Showing posts with label cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cinema. Show all posts

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Cinematografic desert

Activites:Pub, Whitewater kayak

Back to work, after this nice break in Dublin, hopefully tuesday , we went on the river Shannon to do some whitewater kayaking.

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A nice evening on the river Shannon
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Movies
Two interesting movies are now in display in Ireland:
  • Volver by Pedro Almodovar

  • Scanner Darkly adapted from a Philip K.Dick novel

Unfortunately for me, this is only actually shown in Dublin... and not here in Limerick... I live in cinematografic desert... (if you except all american marketing super-production)... I want Kitano, S.Coppolla......

Radiohead Live
You can find some mp3 of Radiohead Live performance (and others) on this site:
http://finefinemusic.com/

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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Diving - Dingle

Activities: Pub(Murphy), Diving, Beach, seesighting

So diving saturday and sunday, hanging around dingle, finding few pubs... learning french from some lovely Diving Instructors (not enough...)

Diving
Like previous WE, we dived in Castlegregory (Dingle Peninsula, Co Kerry) in a gorgeous diving center (http://www.waterworld.ie/)
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4 dives this times (lambster, dog-fish ...etc ) but no seal...

My diving buddy has found new friend:
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Honestly I preferred the lovely girls on the boat of the diving center :-P ... ( and my reponse to any comment of the man in question .... LOL ) If you want more details go there ... I'll probably translate later part of his story about PADI (Put Another Dollar In or Pay Another Dive Instructor).


After a bit of driving around:
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And after a while we finally discover the South Pole Inn, famous pub on the road to Dingle (Annascaul).
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This is the pub of Tom Crean, an Irish antartic explorer.

Work
FYI, I've been able to rip off a nokia mobile phone, to try to see some chips I worked on:
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Links
Irish Sailing Association
Scuba Diving Magazine

And about Wild Life in Ireland:
Encyclopedia of Marine Life in Ireland
Wild-Life in Ireland
About Seal preservation
About our friends the badger...Reminds me Redwall, but unfortunately, most of the badgers I've seen here are dead on the road :(((

Traduction
Sea Lion = "Otarie" in French and Seal = "Phoque", I am not a zoologist but you can recognize a sea-lion from a seal by the way he walks, the sea-lion "walks" on his fins and the seal just slide....

Cinema
I've just seen a brilliant movie: THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY
It's about IRA, the irish revolution, civil war... and it starts with an hurling game.

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Movies

A small post about the (once again) wonderful BBC. On their website, they present some short movies animation ...etc... worth to check it out sometimes:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/

My favourites movies are:

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

My favourites 25 movies

Just putting the list in five minutes (probably may subject to variation...)
  1. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, USA)
  2. Chung-King Express (Wong Kar Wai, HK)
  3. Ashes of time (Wong Kar Wai, HK)
  4. Moonfleet (Fritz Lang, USA)
  5. Requiem for a dream (Darren Arronofsky, USA)
  6. When Harry meet Sally (??, USA)
  7. The Big Lebowsky (Cohen, USA)
  8. Mullholland Drive (D.Lynch, USA)
  9. Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano, Jap)
  10. Taxi Driver (M.Scorsese, USA)
  11. La Jetee (Chris Marker, France)
  12. Persona (I.Bergman, Sweden)
  13. Un singe en hiver (H.Verneuil, France)
  14. Annie Hall (W.Allen, USA)
  15. Traffic (J.Tati, France)
  16. Rocky Horror Picture Show (J.Sharman,USA)
  17. Breaking the waves (Lars Von Triers, Dk)
  18. Monthy Python Holy Graal (GB)
  19. Drowning by numbers (P.Greenaway,GB)
  20. Blade Runner (R.Scott, USA)
  21. Encounter of the third Kind (S.Spielberg, USA)
  22. Vertigo (A.Hitchcock, USA)
  23. Ran (A.Kurosawa, Jap)
  24. My neighbour Totoro (H.Miazaki, Jap)
  25. Coup de tete (J.J.Annaud, France)
And probably could be extended....

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

B-movies

Reference site about B-movies: Nanarland
  • Last B-movies seen:
Ready to Rumble: the story of two sewage workers wrestle-fans on a quest to help their hero, a fallen wrestler champion.
Westworld: A curiosity directed by Michael Crichton, with Yul Brinner about futuristic leisure complex full of robots.
Thunderpants: The story of a farting boy who has his best day ever ever, when he flies in space with a ship propelled by farting.


My favorites B-movies:

Brickmania

Lego Smurf castle ??   Eva.... massive build Swimming in bricks ?